Authority and Social Assets

权威与社会资产

• 批准号: 0095768
• 负责人: Andrew Postlewaite
• 金额: $ 43.14万
• 依托单位: University of Pennsylvania
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 2001
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2001-07-01 至 2005-06-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0095768&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Authority; Social; Assets

This project consists of two parts. The first part addresses the role oflaws in changing people's behavior. Laws do not directly change agents'payoffs. With the standard equilibrium concepts, the role of laws is thenone of coordination. Different people or groups have differing abilities tocoordinate effectively, and any given person will not be able to coordinateequally well in all situations. A person or group has "authority" in aparticular situation if there is an equilibrium in which they can coordinatebehavior for that situation. We analyze the characteristics of people and ofproblems that allow authority in this sense to obtain.The second part continues previous work by the principle investigators incorporating social arrangements into economic models. Previous findings revealed that when there is some incompleteness in markets there will typically be an indeterminacy in outcomes, and that what might be called social arrangements arise because of this indeterminacy. In previous work, what might be called "social assets" played a role. Social assets are assets that are irrelevant from any productive standpoint, but have value in equilibria when particular social arrangements govern. The current research lays out a model in which social assets arise, and investigates the determinants of potential social assets.

本项目由两部分组成。第一部分论述了法律在改变人们行为中的作用。法律并不直接改变代理人的收益。按照标准的均衡概念，法律的作用是协调。不同的人或团体有不同的有效协调能力，任何特定的人都不可能在所有情况下都协调得同样好。一个人或一个群体在特定的情况下有“权威”，如果他们能在这种情况下协调行为。我们分析了人们的特点和问题，让权威在这个意义上获得。第二部分继续以前的工作，由主要研究人员将社会安排纳入经济模型。以前的研究结果表明，当市场存在某种不完全性时，结果通常会出现不确定性，而所谓的社会安排就是因为这种不确定性而出现的。在之前的工作中，所谓的“社会资产”发挥了作用。社会资产是从任何生产的角度来看都无关紧要的资产，但在特定的社会安排支配下，在均衡中具有价值。目前的研究提出了一个社会资产产生的模型，并调查了潜在社会资产的决定因素。